Joseph S. Diltz

First Name: Joseph
Middle Name(s): S.
Last Name: Diltz
Unit: 
Co. I, 66th Ohio Infantry
Residence (County): 
Champaign County, OH
Biography: 

Joseph S. Diltz (b. 1833) was a farmer from Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio. The Diltz family came from Germany in the 1730s and settled in New Jersey, where Joseph S. Diltz’s grandfather, also named Joseph Diltz, was born in 1751 or 1752. The elder Diltz died in Champaign County, Ohio in 1824. Joseph S. Diltz’s father, Wilkinson Diltz, was born in Warren County, Ohio in 1808 and married Catherine Newell in Champaign County in 1830. Before the beginning of the Civil War, Wilkinson and Catherine Diltz moved to Iowa. Joseph S. Diltz enlisted in Co. I, 66th Ohio Infantry in December, 1861. After serving in Maryland and Virginia, the regiment was transferred to the western theatre in September 1863. Diltz was taken prisoner at Caperton’s Ferry, Alabama on March 29, 1864. He survived his imprisonment at Andersonville, Georgia and was paroled on February 15, 1865. At the time of the 1870 census, Joseph Diltz was living with his wife and children in Champaign County, where he died in 1910. Most of the letters in the collection were written by Joseph S. Diltz to his wife, Mary (Molly) Milledge Diltz (b. in Ohio ca. 1838), while he was serving in the army. There are also letters written by Mary Diltz, by her brother, George Milledge, and by her father, Sidney Milledge.

Authored Letters

Displaying 1 - 15 of 15
ID Letter Date Author Recipient From To
13363 Diltz1 January 11, 1862 Joseph S. Diltz Mary Milledge Diltz Urbana, Champaign County, OH
13364 Diltz2 January 24, 1862 Joseph S. Diltz Mary Milledge Diltz Morgan County, VA Urbana, Champaign County, OH
13365 Diltz3 January 24, 1862 Joseph S. Diltz Mary Milledge Diltz Allegany County, MD Urbana, Champaign County, OH
13367 Diltz5 January 27, 1862 Joseph S. Diltz Mary Milledge Diltz Allegany County, MD Urbana, Champaign County, OH
13370 Diltz8 March 1, 1862 Joseph S. Diltz Mary Milledge Diltz Morgan County, VA Urbana, Champaign County, OH
13371 Diltz9 March 10, 1862 Joseph S. Diltz Mary Milledge Diltz Martinsburg, Berkeley County, VA Urbana, Champaign County, OH
13373 Diltz10 March 30, 1862 Joseph S. Diltz Mary Milledge Diltz Winchester, VA Urbana, Champaign County, OH
13375 Diltz12 May 6, 1862 Joseph S. Diltz Mary Milledge Diltz Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, VA Urbana, Champaign County, OH
13378 Diltz14 June 18, 1862 Joseph S. Diltz Mary Milledge Diltz , George Milledge Front Royal, VA Urbana, Champaign County, OH
13379 Diltz15 June 25, 1862 Joseph S. Diltz Mary Milledge Diltz Manassas Junction, VA Urbana, Champaign County, OH
13381 Diltz17 January 9, 1863 Joseph S. Diltz Mary Milledge Diltz Baltimore, MD Urbana, Champaign County, OH
13388 Diltz22 June 24, 1863 Joseph S. Diltz Catherine Diltz Champaign County, OH
13380 Diltz16 September 24, 1863 Joseph S. Diltz Mary Milledge Diltz Harpers Ferry, VA Urbana, Champaign County, OH
13391 Diltz24 October 25, 1863 Joseph S. Diltz Mary Milledge Diltz Wartrace, TN Urbana, Champaign County, OH
13394 Diltz26 April 9, 1864 Joseph S. Diltz Mary Milledge Diltz Andersonville, GA Urbana, Champaign County, OH

Received Letters

Displaying 1 - 8 of 8
ID Letter Date Author Recipient From To
13366 Diltz4 January 26, 1862 Mary Milledge Diltz Joseph S. Diltz Urbana, Champaign County, OH Allegany County, MD
13368 Diltz6 February 9, 1862 Mary Milledge Diltz Joseph S. Diltz Urbana, Champaign County, OH
13369 Diltz7 February 27, 1862 Mary Milledge Diltz Joseph S. Diltz Urbana, Champaign County, OH
13374 Diltz11 April 8, 1862 Mary Milledge Diltz Joseph S. Diltz Urbana, Champaign County, OH VA
13382 Diltz18 May 3, 1863 Mary Milledge Diltz Joseph S. Diltz Urbana, Champaign County, OH
13383 Diltz19 May 6, 1863 Mary Milledge Diltz Joseph S. Diltz Urbana, Champaign County, OH
13384 Diltz20 May 7, 1863 Sidney Milledge Joseph S. Diltz , John Milledge
13386 Diltz21 June 9, 1863 George Milledge Joseph S. Diltz Fauquier County, VA

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